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Thursday, 19 February 2026
Photo: Masaru Kamikura / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Consumer & media · North AmericaMarquee Brands buys Food52 out of bankruptcy for $9.9 million, pairing it with America's Test KitchenFood52 was valued at $300 million in 2021; its media business sold at a bankruptcy auction for $9.9 million plus some liabilities, and its Schoolhouse and Dansk brands went to other buyers.
Photo: M R Karim Reza / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Legal & compliance · North AmericaHg-backed CUBE acquires Silicon Valley compliance AI startup 4CRisk.aiThe deal takes London-based CUBE beyond financial regulation into cyber, AI, privacy, labour and ESG rules, using 4CRisk's models that map company policies to legal obligations.
Photo: ampersandyslexia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Consumer & media · EuropeScopely takes majority stake in Pixel Flow! studio Loom Games in deal reported to value it above $1BThe Istanbul studio was formed in 2025 and has about 20 people, yet its first game became the only casual title released in the past year to reach the monthly top 20 grossing chart in the US.Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Photo: Petiatil / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaTitanX buys sales dialer FrontSpin in eight-figure deal a month after its Series ATitanX's chief executive later put the price at $13 million, with $7 million paid up front, for a dialer company it had worked with for years.
Photo: Vancouver Film School / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaFoundry, maker of Nuke, acquires Seattle AI orchestration startup GriptapeThe London visual-effects software company bought a three-year-old startup founded by former AWS staff to bring AI models and agents into studio pipelines through tools such as Nuke.Tuesday, 17 February 2026
Photo: www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · IsraelPalo Alto Networks to acquire Israeli AI endpoint security startup KoiKoi, founded in 2024 and backed by $48 million, scans extensions, packages and AI agents that slip past traditional endpoint tools. Globes and CyberScoop put the price at about $400 million.
Photo: Livestock Industries, CSIRO / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0Healthtech & bio · East AsiaTechmatrix agrees to take control of pathology AI startup Medmain for about ¥2.3 billionTechmatrix's subsidiary PSP has been a Medmain shareholder since 2022; together they plan to buy out the startup's other investors and build a combined digital pathology platform.
Photo: S.aderogba / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaBridgeWise acquires Chicago sentiment-data firm Context Analytics to feed its AI wealth agentThe Israeli wealth-AI company is buying a supplier of machine-readable news and filings sentiment used by S&P Global Market Intelligence, in a deal Calcalist estimated at about $13 million.
Photo: Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Developer tools · EuropeMistral AI buys Paris serverless startup Koyeb in its first acquisitionThe French model maker, last valued at $13.8 billion, is adding Koyeb's 16-person team and its GPU inference platform to Mistral Compute, its push to sell AI cloud infrastructure.
Thursday, 12 February 2026
Photo: Chainwit. / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Fintech · North AmericaGrab agrees to buy US investing app Stash at a $425 million enterprise valueSoutheast Asia's ride-hailing and payments group is buying a US subscription investing app with more than $5 billion in assets, at a value far below the roughly $1.4 billion Stash was worth in 2021.
Image: FlockFintech · EuropeAdmiral Group agrees to buy fleet insurtech Flock for £80 millionThe UK motor insurer is paying £80 million (about $109 million) for the equity of Flock, a London start-up that prices commercial fleet cover with AI models trained on live driving data, after two years of working together.
Photo: Anatoli Axelrod / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0Cybersecurity · IsraelCheck Point acquires Israeli exposure management start-up CyclopsCyclops was the largest of three Israeli start-ups Check Point bought on the day it reported 2025 results; Calcalist put the price at about $85 million.
Photo: Chainwit. / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Legal & compliance · Middle EastAscentium acquires Clara, the largest corporate service provider in Abu Dhabi's ADGMSingapore's Ascentium bought Clara, a legal-tech start-up that manages about 2,000 companies in the UAE's two common-law financial centres, to gain a foothold in the Middle East.
Photo: www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · IsraelCheck Point acquires Cyata, an Israeli start-up that secures AI agentsCheck Point bought Cyata about a year and a half after its CEO, a former Check Point employee, founded it to track and control the AI agents running inside companies.
Image: AcuvityCybersecurity · North AmericaProofpoint acquires Acuvity to bring AI agent security and governance into its platformAcuvity, a three-year-old Sunnyvale startup backed by a $9 million seed round, monitors how employees and AI agents use AI tools, down to MCP servers and models running on a laptop.
Photo: Daudi mukiibi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Enterprise software · North AmericaSeismic to merge with sales enablement rival Highspot under Permira controlHighspot, valued at $3.5 billion in 2022 after raising $648 million, will fold into its largest competitor, with Seismic's chief executive in charge and Permira as the controlling shareholder.Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Photo: Kalakki at Malayalam Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5Fintech · IndiaZerodha's Rainmatter buys 51% of pension platform PensionBox for $2 millionRainmatter, the investment arm of Indian broker Zerodha, took majority control of Bengaluru's PensionBox in a $2 million deal that gave every early investor a full exit, while the founding brothers kept 48%.
Photo: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Data & analytics · North AmericaApple acquired Waterloo graph database startup Kuzu, EU filing showsApple never announced the deal; it surfaced in a Digital Markets Act disclosure four months after the October 2025 agreement, by which time Kuzu had archived its open-source code and taken its website offline.
Photo: Patrick Nouhailler's… / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Fintech · North AmericaiCapital agrees to acquire Passthrough, a New York investor onboarding startupFounded by three Carta alumni, Passthrough automates subscription documents and KYC/AML checks for fund managers; iCapital wants it to onboard institutional as well as wealth investors.